Executive President

Executive Vice President
Elex Tenney, MSW
Medical Social Worker, Primary Care Adult Medicine, East Interstate
etenney@ofnhp.org, 503.887.5781

Elex has been a Medical Social Worker at Kaiser for 24 years. She describes the highlight of her time with Kaiser as when the Pro Bargaining Unit was formed at OFNHP. This process took 10 long months of negotiations until they signed their first contract in February 2002. Elex and many others worked very hard for years to organize the Pro Bargaining Unit.

Elex has served on two contract negotiating teams for OFNHP, and has been a union steward since 2002. She has served as President of the Pro Bargaining Unit, on numerous partnership committees and on OFNHP Executive Board committees.

Elex continues to be committed to the vision of a strong union that is democratic, fully representational, inclusive and protective of all its members.

Executive Secretary
Samantha J. Owens, RN
Cardiovascular Unit, KSMC

Samantha has been a Kaiser employee since 1997, a union steward for 10 years, and has been actively involved in many hospital partnership committees.

Sam is very familiar with our union's contracts, by-laws, and constitution. Her activism has involved participation in the campaign to unionize Legacy nurses, OATS (organizing action team), RN staffing ratio testimony, and public disclosure legislation. She has served as Co-chair of the KSMC Steward Council and as a member of the unit partnership council.

Samantha believes our greatest power as a union is in the unity of all our members. She is committed to building solidarity and to a member-driven union.

Executive Treasurer
Meg McGowan-Tuttle, RN
Oncology Med/Surg, KSMC 

Meg has been an oncology RN for 29 years. She worked for 15 years at Bess Kaiser Hospital and for the last 14 at KSMC. She has been OCN certified since 1995 and has been a charge nurse for 12 years.

During the Kaiser strike of 1988, Meg felt compelled to become more involved in the union. She has been a steward for 19 years, has been on four local negotiating teams and participated in the the first national negotiations in 2000. She also went back to Washington D.C. in 2000 to participate in a press conference with the CEO of Kaiser, the president of the AFL-CIO and two other labor negotiators to announce the first labor/management agreement at Kaiser Permanente.

She has been active in her UBT since inception and regularly attends the Sunnyside Steward Council. Meg believes that members must participate in the decisions that affect their working conditions and job security and feels this team of candidates is dedicated to seeking out that input from all members who want to be involved.

Your Executive Board is committed to financial transparency. In addition to giving regular reports at Membership Meetings, the Executive Treasurer will meet with any member who wants more information about specifics of the budget.

If you would like to discuss any aspect of the union's financials, please contact Meg McGowan Tuttle.

Executive Treasurer
Meg McGowan-Tuttle
Office: 503.657.9974
Email: mctut@msn.com

The union also files a full financial report with the Department of Labor every year, called the LM2 Report.

Click here to see OFNHP's 2010 LM2.